This paper explores how interviews a¤ect the matching process when worker productivity is private information. Wages are determined by a single round of strategic bargaining after the worker is interviewed. The implications of this hiring process for the e¢ ciency of matching and the incidence and severity of statistical discrimination are considered. The better are …rms at identifying producti...

Integration or replacement of existing software systems is inevitable after company mergers and other types of collaborations between organizations. Our present research aims at describing how organizations have accomplished new generations of their existing systems by integrating, merging, or reusing parts of existing systems, be it code, design ideas, or requirements. As an important part of ...

After presenting a brief overview of the complexity of the qualitative interviewing process used by psychotherapy researchers, the authors discuss some of the major ideas that psychotherapy researchers using such interviews must consider both before and during the interview process. They then offer thoughts regarding approaches to strengthen qualitative interviews themselves.

Over the years I’ve been asked lots of questions about analysis. Here are the most frequently asked questions and my answers. Keep in mind that my first answer for almost all of these questions is: “It depends.” Your situation or environment and the type of study you are doing are major factors that influence how analysis might best be done. OK, given that caveat, here is an attempt to answer t...